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  • Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’

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  • Look’s ps’d to make him look a lot less fat, with far squarer shoulders.

    Oh, good call! I never imaged he'd be so fragile to resort to photo editing.

    Apparently he decided he needed some gender affirming photo edits to look more like his preferred gender.

  • Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’

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  • Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey warned in a press conference Thursday that if any protesters “throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun,” they will be killed.

    So Sheriff Wayne is planning on performing extra-judicial executions? Sheriff Wayne looks in the mirror and sees this:

    Except he actually looks like this:

  • Been a good couple of years

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  • Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D Computer

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  • A promising start, but a thousand transistors at 25 kilohertz puts it where silicon tech was 60 years ago, so they’ve a long, long way to go.

    If you're talking about the desire to replace today's modern CPUs, sure. However, in the world of electronics there are lots and lots of support electronics and ICs that run way slower than 25kHz. All of this assumes the technology can scale for cost effective manufacturing yields at this current speed. If its both expensive AND slow, it will have far fewer use cases.

  • Anyone else kind of disgusted at the waste created by going out to eat?

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  • But that also wastes a lot of freshwater from dish washing

    I'm going to pick on this one point. A high end dishwasher appliance only use 2.4 gallons (9L) of fresh water, while even average dishwashers use about 5 to 6 gallons. To put that in perspective an 8 minute shower likely uses 17 gallons.

    So dishwashing is a tiny tiny waste, if you can even call it a waste.

  • Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff

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  • Still, his colleague, Virgil Scardina, says they count themselves lucky. “I get to go home and hug my kid,” he said. “These guys don’t. And they don’t deserve that.”

    "Given what you know now will you vote against trump and the GOP in all races coming up?" - reporter probably

    "Absolutely not! The GOP will always have my vote!" - this Roofing company owner probably

  • Trump says Newsom should thank him for ‘saving his a—’

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  • I remember how trump demanded Volodymyr Zelensky should thank him too.

  • World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing, Device translates thought to speech in real time.

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  • Study co-author Maitreyee Wairagkar, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues trained deep-learning algorithms to capture the signals in his brain every 10 milliseconds. Their system decodes, in real time, the sounds the man attempts to produce rather than his intended words or the constituent phonemes — the subunits of speech that form spoken words.

    This is a really cool approach. They're not having to determine speech meaning, but instead picking up signals after the person's brain has already done that part and is just trying to vocalize. I'm guessing they can capture nerve impulses that would be moving muscles in the face, mouth, lips, and possibly larynx and then using the AI to quickly determine which sounds that would produce in those few milliseconds those conditions exist. Then the machine to produces the sounds artificially. Because they're able to do this so fast (in 10 milliseconds) it can get close to human body response and reproduction of the specific sounds.

  • World’s most popular TikTok star Khaby Lame leaves the US after being detained by ICE

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  • Not the case here. The article has the details.

  • Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)

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  • I think this highlight the problem with this approach. $500 MSRP would likely not be cost effective for a phone manufacturer to invest in the design, construction, inventory of replacement parts, and multi-year long support of the rugged and long lasting phone. An important part of the premise of the author is that the phone lasts a long time, and your stated desire for long software support.

    This is likely a money loser for a phone manufacturer from day one. My guess is that this phone would likely have to cost $2000 to $3000 for a chance to be economically viable. The biggest expenses are going to be on the human labor parts of a staff to provide the regular software updates, maintaining humans that run the manufacturing lines for the replacement parts, and the repair staff to effect the repairs over time for customers. Considering the only time the phone manufacturer gets money is from the initial sale of the phone, they have to price it high enough to cover many years of these support operations.

    At the higher, more realistic, phone sale price it likely drops the number of potential customers so low to not even pay for the initial design and tooling to be created.

    This is likely why no manufacturer makes this theoretical phone.

  • Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)

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  • How much money would you pay for this dream rugged smartphone of yours?

  • Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)

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  • The article is disappointing. It appears author of that article only has one narrow view and assumes the rest of the world has the same.

    They buy the most fragile and aesthetically pleasing phones, and complain they are fragile. They advocate for manufacturers to stop making fragile aesthetically pleasing phones, and only make rugged or repairable phones instead. They make an inference that phones should be repairable like cars with accessible parts and non-proprietary tools, but they appear to not know that today's cars have difficulty getting replacement parts and absolutely contain mechanical and electronic proprietary tools to repair the cars.

    Mr/Ms author, if you want a phone that doesn't break so easily when dropped, you can buy such a thing right now. Something like CAT phones:

    ... or other ruggedized Android phones.

    I think the last time I dropped a phone an broke the screen on it was maybe 2007. I don't even use phone cases. If your particular use case has you dropping your phone more, buy one that exists and is designed to take those kind of conditions. There's no shame in that, but don't advocate for an entire industry shift because of just your own use case.

    Smartphones/technology are still incredibly young in the grand scheme of things. Each of the new generation of devices that comes out adds more functionality for features that people want. Until that stops, it doesn't make sense to try to switch everyone to a "buy it for life" approach. My Commodore 64 computer still works, and is very easy to service, however I wouldn't have wanted technology to stop back then just because its a sturdy built machine. Today I have the paper thin laptops with 8 hours of battery and high speed CPUs are not as rugged or repairable as my venerable C64, but I'm quite glad to have the fragile laptop instead.

  • It’s gonna be close

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  • "Fool of a Took!"

  • World’s most popular TikTok star Khaby Lame leaves the US after being detained by ICE

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  • If he was on day 30 of 90 why was ICE saying he "overstayed"? Is this some kind of technicality not mentioned or is ICE straight up lying (as usual)?

  • World’s most popular TikTok star Khaby Lame leaves the US after being detained by ICE

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  • was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order

    Was he already at the airport leaving the country before being detained and asked to leave the country? This feels like just trying to pump up reporting numbers.

  • Why Rooftop Solar Could Crash Under the Republican Tax-Cut Bill

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  • Its an odd time right now for residential solar in the USA right now.

    On the down sides:

    • Tariffs are hitting equipment manufacturers for certain components coming from outside the USA
    • Interest rates are moderately high for customers having to borrow to make the purchase
    • Large solar install companies continue to fall. Sunnova is the most recent to announce bankruptcy making long term installer warranties risky
    • On the battery front, Tesla is one of the best/cheapest solar battery solution makers, and they are politically toxic right now

    On the upside:

    • The 30% tax credits are still in place at least until the end of 2025
    • Electricity rates have continued to increase, meaning solar would be more beneficial

    If you can pay cash and you own your own home, going solar is most likely going to be beneficial for you. If you have to borrow or have heavy tree cover on your property it becomes more questionable. I have been very happy I put panels on my house and am benefiting from it.

  • Removed

    Open Source Paid Remote Desktop

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  • I don't have a recommendation for you, but if you exhaust your leads there is a large comparrison table with all kinds (and ages) of remote access solutions that you could search against for your criteria (open source, supported, etc) here:

    Comparison of remote desktop software on wikipedia

  • The White House claims California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

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  • You know they would say that it was stolen, don’t you?

    Sure, so they would be saying that if the government arrives at an answer that they believes violates the law, then a violent riot is permissible.

    Wouldn't that same opinion then justify a violent riot in LA (if there actually was one) if the protesters believed due process law was being violated?

    They can't logically or rationally say one is right and the other wrong.

  • Trump’s Border Czar Dramatically Changes His Tune About Arresting Newsom

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  • “ICE took a lot of bad people off the street that day. We arrested a sexual predator, arrested gang members, arrested somebody that had an armed robbery conviction. So we made L.A. safer, but you’re not hearing any of this,” Homan said. " All you hear is rhetoric about ICE being racist and ICE being Nazis and terrorists,..."

    "Sure we may have swept up dozens and dozens of unrelated non-criminal undocumented immigrants, possibly fully legal documented immigrants, or hell even native born American citizens. That's just collateral damage. We'll sort them all out when they arrive in El Salvador. Who knows, maybe we might even let them come back to US soil. Stranger things have happened." - trump's border tsar probably